May 9, 2012

Biofuel Players in Hawaii

Overview blog:  ahualoa.net

David Tarnas, director of government affairs at Merica International, Waimea, and director of Malama Kai Foundation     Robert Rapier, Chief Technology Officer for Merica International, a bioenergy holding company, and blogs rsquared.

Merica acquires majority stake in Choren, by acquiring Shell's stake in the company, Nov 2009.
2012 Dresden company buys bankrupt Choren's last remaining business.  Sounds like Merica made a bad deal and Shell made a good one in 2009 since Choren went bankrupt several years later and was sold off to a European company with plans of its own in Europe.  No website for Merica located.

Hawai‘i BioEnergy "(HBE) is a LLC established by three of Hawai‘i's largest landowners: Kamehameha Schools, Grove Farm Company Inc., and Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc.
Other partners include leaders from the venture capital community - Vinod Khosla, Ohana Holdings and Finistere Ventures."   A 2011 news release from HBE, above, says that Grove Farm Lands in Kauai (see map) will be used to process 10 million gallons of biofuels, processed onsite, and used to fuel Oahu's Kahe power plant.  This is a proposal for PUC decision and not a done deal.

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